New story collections from Chris Stuck, Simon Rich and Jaime Cortez.New story collections from Chris Stuck, Simon Rich and Jaime Cortez.Read MoreBooks and Literature, Rich,…
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The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse
“Two-Way Mirror,” by Fiona Sampson, is the first biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in many years. It aims to restore the now overlooked poet’s reputation…
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“Don’t Forget Us Here,” by Mansoor Adayfi with Antonio Aiello, is the memoir of a Yemeni man who claims he was kidnapped in Afghanistan, sold…
View More He Spent 14 Years at Guantánamo. This Is His Story.The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
A new book by Eyal Press examines ethically fraught jobs on which our society depends and which we implicitly condone even as we pay other…
View More The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our PlaceIt’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album
For a celebrated architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an album of 11 original songs, in a variety of genres, was eight decades…
View More It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First AlbumA Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for Risk
The daring opera star Asmik Grigorian “could sing the phone book and it would be fabulous,” one director says.The daring opera star Asmik Grigorian “could…
View More A Soprano With a Bottomless Appetite for RiskAfter a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits
Since 1995, Helga Rabl-Stadler has ruled the Salzburg Festival, classical music’s premier annual event, as its president and public face.Since 1995, Helga Rabl-Stadler has ruled…
View More After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It QuitsColbert on Afghanistan: ‘It’s Heartbreaking’
“Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We’ve got our own on Capitol Hill,” Stephen Colbert said.“Why should our…
View More Colbert on Afghanistan: ‘It’s Heartbreaking’Watch This Summery, Soapy New Drama Starring Nicole Kidman
Looking for something to watch this week? Our critic recommends “Nine Perfect Strangers” a lush new David E. Kelley adaptation of a book by Liane…
View More Watch This Summery, Soapy New Drama Starring Nicole KidmanHow America Lost Its Way in Afghanistan
Two new books, “The American War in Afghanistan,” by Carter Malkasian, and “The Afghanistan Papers,” by Craig Whitlock, trace Washington’s long history of mistakes and…
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